We first mentioned Metaplace over a year ago, and that year has been spent working toward a public beta. In the past week I received a beta invite and I've spent a number of hours using Metaplace. Overall, this is one impressive virtual world platform with enormous potential. It makes offerings like Google Lively seem just a little underdone to say the least. My impressions … [Read more...] about Metaplace: beta impressions
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Raph Koster: MMOs versus MUDs
Metaplace's Raph Koster has been around long enough to know most virtual world history. He's raised some interesting points about MUDs and MMOs, stating that the latter have "removed more features from MUD gameplay than they have added". One of the hundreds of MUDs still running: Project Carthage What do you think? Is there truly anything new in multiplayer gaming or … [Read more...] about Raph Koster: MMOs versus MUDs
Metaplace is hotting up
Back in September 2007 we mentioned that Metaplace was a new kid on the virtual world block. That kid is growing up pretty quickly and in an interview this week, Metaplace founder (and virtual world guru) Raph Koster states that widespread access to Metaplace should be available by April. The likelihood is it'll be free for users to build small virtual worlds, with costs … [Read more...] about Metaplace is hotting up
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It's been fairly widely reported over the past week that there's a new kid on the virtual world block. Metaplace has some significant backing and looks promising. Some key snippets from Metaplace's company, Areae: "We think there are all kinds of things on the Internet that would be improved if anyone could have a virtual place of their own" "committed to an open markup … [Read more...] about Metaplace